Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider Khan has directed the management of Kohalla Jehlum Hydro-power Project to appoint local people on technical vacancies on priority basis and remove reservation of the affected people.

He was talking to a delegation of Kohalla Jehlum Hydro-power Project in Muzaffarabad today (Friday).

The Project is part of CPEC energy projects which will be completed at a cost of 240 billion rupees.

The company is to pay compensation to owners of the lands affected by Kohalla Jehlum Project.